Hello everyone! This is my first time posting here. Not sure if this belongs under this section or the support section, but meh if it needs to be moved no big deal.
I recently built a new PC and its not performing as well as I expected.
Here are the specs:
I understand that the biggest factor for performance in dolphin is the CPU, but from my research it seems like I should be getting better performance than I currently do. For instance in super Mario Galaxy 2, I usually get framerates of <45, even dropping below 30 fairly regularly. This video: shows someone achieving a buttery 60FPS in Galaxy 2 with an RX480 and an amd fx-8320 processor. In theory, I should be getting the same level of performance since i have the same GPU and my processor actually has higher per core performance. I'm getting equally as bad performance in most dolphin games as well (Zelda Twilight princess(wii) I get ~20FPS).
What's even weirder is looking in the performance tab of task manager, none of the cores seem to be maxing to 100% usage. Neither does the GPU. It doesn't seem to be thermal throttling either, I checked the temps in HWMonitor and they were ~30C.
I'm really confused by this. What could the problem be? Not enough RAM? VRAM? RAM too slow? Mechanical hard drive to slow(loading data from the ISO)? Dolphin for some reason not being allocated enough CPU time/resources? driver issue? Poorly configured settings?
Thanks for your time and help!
TLDR: Solution: Don't use "power saver" as your Windows power plan. Don't use OpenGL with RX Cards.
I recently built a new PC and its not performing as well as I expected.
Here are the specs:
- RX 480 4GB
- Xeon E3 1275l (Quad Core, nearly identical performance to i7-4790)
- 8GB DDR3 RAM
- 2TB hard drive
I understand that the biggest factor for performance in dolphin is the CPU, but from my research it seems like I should be getting better performance than I currently do. For instance in super Mario Galaxy 2, I usually get framerates of <45, even dropping below 30 fairly regularly. This video:
Spoiler:
What's even weirder is looking in the performance tab of task manager, none of the cores seem to be maxing to 100% usage. Neither does the GPU. It doesn't seem to be thermal throttling either, I checked the temps in HWMonitor and they were ~30C.
I'm really confused by this. What could the problem be? Not enough RAM? VRAM? RAM too slow? Mechanical hard drive to slow(loading data from the ISO)? Dolphin for some reason not being allocated enough CPU time/resources? driver issue? Poorly configured settings?
Thanks for your time and help!
TLDR: Solution: Don't use "power saver" as your Windows power plan. Don't use OpenGL with RX Cards.